"Les Taronites en Arménie et à Byzance," by Nicholas Adontz, in 69 searchable and bookmarked pdf pages. This important article initially was serialized in French in 1934-1936 in the journal Byzantion. The study describes what is known from Greek and Armenian sources about two noble families and their branches from the district of historical Armenia known as Taron, located to the west and southwest of Lake Van in Asia Minor. Originally under the rule of Mamikonians and later of Bagratids, the district eventually was incorporated into the Byzantine empire in the 10th century.  At that point, the Armenian families known as Taronites, Krinites, Tornikes and others from this area appear with increasing frequency in Byzantine sources as military commanders and civilian functionaries. The district and its nobility played important roles in Armenian and Byzantine affairs, through the 13th century. The present scan was made from the reprint in Études Arméno-byzantines (Lisbon, 1965), pp. 197-263. Attached to the document is an Armenian translation (Տարոնացիները Հայաստանում և Բյուզանդիայում) extracted from Works of Nicholas Adontz in Five Volumes, Volume 5 (Erevan, 2012), pp. 260-343 [in Armenian], P. H. Hovhannisyan, editor. Compiled by Robert Bedrosian.

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